Aussie mag box

[ZGB]

Hi Everyone
The other day i opened a wooden box containing 100 bren mags re-packed in the 50's that was from Oz. In it there were quite a few with stenciled and hand painted markings. Eg; E-coy 15Btn, 15N.S.D, 15N.S-T & 15N.S-C. All the mags are different makers, which leads me on to my point, does anybody know if the aussies made a standard .303 12rnd mag box. I don't think i have ever seen one.

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[tankhunter]

Why would they want to?
If you are training & doing I.A Drill's. (Imeadiate Action) & load/ unloading Drills as well as live firing in service. You WOULD need dry training to be as near to live firing as possible.
So.......Troops would use 'Normal' 30 rounders. If you want less drill rounds in a 30 round mag. You only put in what you need. Simple!

WHY on earth would the Military go to the trouble & unessacary expense. Of getting a different type of mag in?....

Of course, if YOU needed a 10 round mag. It would be a simple job to cut one down, & modify it.

Just my 2cents worth of being a Military Armourer.

[Peter Laidler]

I think he's asking in a looooong winded way whether Aust made standard 12 mag magazine BOXES as opposed to 12 round MAGAZINES. Like you say, no point whatever for having 12 round magazines. BUT.........

Off the subject a bit, but there was a means of modifying Bren magazines to take 10 (?) rounds for Cadet Training Teams. But whether this was just some tacit/accepted agreement or authorised somewhere I can't say although I never saw an instruction although I did see a load of the 10 round converted magazines that were identified as 'STOPPED'

[ZGB]

Thanks peter.
Meant 12mags per box.
Still getting through the remains of the old interarms lot of boxes that they imported from belgium. I have never seen a Aussie made 12mag steel box in all the years of sorting through the batch we have, or seen any at shows.

[tankhunter]

Pete, well done for clarifying.

[Brit plumber]

I'm sure I have a photo of mag boxes either being made or Refurbed in Australia. If I remember correctly it was on the Australian War Memorial.

[Peter Laidler]

I know that in Australia we definately had Bren/L4 mag boxes because we used them as general range boxes and converted them to take the L4 mags although as I recall, the internal wood fittings were different for some reason

Ooooops, forgot to say but line one amended to be clearer

[ZGB]

Britplumber
Any chance you may have photos of Aussie makers marks that were applied to the tins in that collection of images.
Cheers.

[Kev G]

I don't think it's too hard to work out the OP's typo as his question was in regards to magazine boxes NOT box magazines but an interesting question.
I always ment to have a look at a stash of Aussie L2A1 magazine boxes to see if they were ex UK 303 conversions or UK L4 boxes or Aussie made.....anyone got one that they can look at ?

ATB KG

[Peter Laidler]

To be fair KG, I'm reasonably well versed in Bren matters and I was a bit flummoxed* about what was being asked and wondered whether he'd seen some modified 10 rounders!

* FLUMMOXED. = Army technical phrase used by REME Officers this time, instead of the usual shop floor phrase '.....what the fxxx is he on about.....' usually heard in REME workshops when a low baller is thrown.